You can agree with him as much as you want, it just isn't true.

> If people really wanted to save their content, they could have done that.

Part of the problem here was that yahoo did a pretty bad job at communicating their intention to the people that had their sites there. Essentially Yahoo tried to convert the 'holdouts' from the free portion of the site to paid hosting accounts 'or else'. When they pulled the plug it left 10's of millions of accounts up in the air.

There were several attempts at rescuing as much of geocities as could be done, the fact that you don't know any of this isn't really your fault, after all your account is all of 40 minutes old, but when it happened it was fairly widely publicised both here on HN and in the regular media.

> Most of what you have is probably abandoned.

You'd be surprised.